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natever tne weatner may oe
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THE MISSING YMjnJlW.
How It "Was Cut From the Frame
in a Ducal Palace.
Tha Detective's ScheaM Sealed by a
Grating Key PnrsuK ot the Sa
pected Tbler The Keaaarlrahle
Hat sad Iu Coateata.
1m a story recentfy pria ia Aa
Dispatch. headel "ADetectivat Ea
chred," the narrator referred to an
occasion when one of tho best schemes
he ever concocted was frustrated
by the - gratia t of ai -Jcey "in t
lock. The writer's note-book contains
simple facts illustrating the officer's
statement. 4 and as, they w Jakam
down as narrated; tfiey:sjT4prodaoaar
in his words:
"Not far from the city of Oxford,
Eng., there is a prinoely-d welling; -occupied
by the collateral descendants of
a famous General, whose title of Duke
the head of the family still bears. -The
Duke to w"hom I refer was one of the
best of men, without a particle of praie,
and devoted to the weliarV of the peo
ple among whom he lived. He had a
fine gallery of picture and . among
them many of great vtaue:---One-jf
these was a Claude' Lorraine, and be
tween a Saturday evening and the fol
lowing Sunday morning it was cut
from tho frame and removed. I was
sent for, and the task of discovering
the thief or thieves was imposed upon
me. The picture was hung the second
from tho entrance to the gallery on the
left hand side. On the Saturday even
ing the Du le himself,. accompanied by
his secretary, went through the gallery,
and spoke of some alterations which
he contemplated. The very picture
was specially alluded to as one that
ought to be removed to a better light.
The gallery was locked and the keys
were deposited in the Duke's desk in
the library. The following Monday
evening the Duke again visited the gal
lery, and th first thing which struck
his eye was the empty frame. JThe
Duke very wisely communicated ta fact
of the theft to no one until he saw me.' I
found that thc; only person who could
have had access to the keys of the gal
lery was the secretary, Mr. Stanley.;,... -'"'The
Duke told me he was the son of
his old tutor, and an exemplary-young.
man. ncwas tbe sole, support of, his
motherland sister. who lived, on Ajr
gyle Square, London. OL .v "'I
"At dinner that night I took- a good
look at Mr. Stanley. ' There was
something about his ways" I did not
like. Though I was .introduced as a
lawyer from London, come to consult
with the "Duko- on" important-Hrasi-
ness, i .couta.see uaaiLssr. Stan
ley regarded, me n with what
seemed to me suspicion. A
strange misgiving respecting Mr. Stan
ley was floating in my mind.' After
dinner he engaged me in conversation,
saving that he was intended for the le
gal profession, but had taken orders
instead only to find that a bronchial
affection from which he suffered was to
preclude his ever speaking in public
"X thing occurred which was- just
what I could have wished. The Duke
suggested that he and I should retire
to tne library, and requestedMr. Stan
ley to light the lamps In the library,
aauing uai ne snouia not require,, nis
services again that night. The thought
struck me at once that ME Stanley
would be anxious to" know- what the
Duke and I were to talk about. Some
thing seemed to say-to me, 'He is the
guilty man he will wait and hide aad
listen.' This thing so filled my thoughts
that I heard nothing "the Duke was
saying, until he roused me by 'inviting
me to the library! It was a , large'
room, wiia two screens wiu a uuor in
the further corner. I already knew
that the door led to a small study.
iruui wuicu private tuun uccuucu iu
the floor above. Ihe door "was .ajart
and I was as certain that MrJ;Stanley
was on the other side of it as though, x,
saw him tjeix-- rurposely .Lspoke in a
full, d!stinct voice, so-that he could not
fail to hear if he were listening. "J had
already made up my mind what to say
and do. '
-"The Duke handed we & cigar and
took one himself, and weaaioked.
Af tr some conversation. I-'eeidt -." "? ' . '
r Tiavn Tiiafln l row ?TTirkW?IV"ii
covery, which may lead ,tp( the detec
tion of the thiel'
" 'Indeed,1 said the Duke: 'what is
it?'
v On the door of thc.picture'gallery,,
x nave aiscovercu ine maris pi a.nanu
a man's hand,' I said ., i '
" 'That is apoorciew, said the Duke,
is it not?- - ace
" -Not so poor in this instance,' I re
plied; 'for-tbe fingers and-the-palra-ofi
the hand aretso, clearlygmarkfdthat l
can iniauiDiy-ieii'cne nana uhkwic ine
imprint, if once I see it.'
'That .is TtSarlcable,! said 'the
Duke. ' ' ' - l! -
" 'Now, what I want is this,', I said.
I want JtoJcxammei'Uie,'-left'b.and of
every person who was in this dwelling
between that Saturday night and tne
Mondav followinr.l-i3 -f
' 1.' A -L k i .
,.." Ofou Shall do so,'ctbaDuke said,
after a pause.
"Then the thought struck me that if
Mr, Stanley were listening, SLsI.JcUhe
was, he would at once quit his postry
tbe private stairr-and very likely de
scend to the main hall and take a glance
at the door of .-the picture, gallery. I
stepped po the library door and opened
it." Itwasimmedislely oppsifejo the
door of the gallery; which wasin'e
shade..- J- '''jm:- t l
- "I aad. hardly jopenedf the. doorwham
Mr. Stanley descended 'tJaetairgjejii
walked across .the haM;Trlnfinr at the
gallery door as' her did sd.r.iaaerao
fear that he would go near the door.
for awabea of the fasaitv aad
aafts ware .oasaiaK aad rapaaitas; all
the time, and, moreover, a porter aad
two servant-men were ia charge o the
ialL
- :'After a few minutes' farther talk
with the Duke, during which ha aatored
ate I should hare his help ia aay scaeaae
I proposed, I qaitted the library aad
weat toward y owa,aiiattaiaal. Oa
the way I aaet Mr. Stanley; aad oa the
ipar of the aieaieat I awited hias to
lay room, saying that I aa4,soaae good
cognac aad cigars. He accepted,. aad
ire sat' talking together until aearlr
nudhight- Then he bade aae good
aight and weat to his owa roosa. I
stood ia the corridor' aad saw h:m ea
ter. I put on a pair of li alipeers.
r. I put
ireparea a
dark laatera. aad waited
natal the last aoaad shoald die away ia
the palace. . . z .
, "This was my idea; U Mr. Staaley
was thf guilty maa ae had aiddea aJaa
self in, the room of. the library, aad
overheard what I had saTdfandwoald,
certainly during the eight. Sad-aa op
portunity to visit the 'gallery door, ex
amine it for tlw fingeratarks and ob
literate them. ' It meat ha aay baaiaeat
to watrh and ideatifr Mai; aad. for this
purpose;. I had resolved to takeapa
positioa ia the. hall,- behiad oae of the
.pillars of tbe -stairs, where.I coeld see
alTthat passed for a lamp buraad all
:night and at tlie same time be ooav
ipletely, ooncealcd. . , , ' ' t .
"As soon as U was quiet I oaeaed
my door. The cursed key grated mthe
lock. As I stepped iato- the eorridor I
heard ;the rush. el hasty -feet, aad the
souad stopped, just where I knew the
door of Mr., Stanley's, room to be. I
felt that I had disturbed him oahis way
.to remove 'the anger-marks, that he
. would not attempt any thing mora thai
night, and so I went to bed.
"Of course I aeed Bet tell yoa that
the story about the finger-marks was
all bosh- I iaveated- it oa the spar, of
the momeat.to deooyjfr. Staaley. aad
I should have 'succeeded bat for the
grating key- Since then, theirst thiag
I do wheal am ia' bas'neas ia to oil the
lock1 and haadle.aad hiages ef my
door.,- ;' ' ' Kri
"Hext morning" I heard that Mr.
Stanley said he had received notice 'of
his mother's serious illness, and that he
was going to London by the eleven
o'clock train. ' I weat to my room,
shaved off my beard, aad dressed my
self as a clergymaa. vVhen I showed
myse to.theDuke he thought some
dignitary of the church came to visit
him." When I disclosed myself, he was
greatly astonished and, them amaaed.
I told him I might be away for a few
days. --" ' -i-fi f r r '
"How about the .marks oa the
door?' " --"- - "
" They hare faded oat,' I replied. .
"I walked from the palace to the
town on a street of which the main
Stes open, and hiring a' oab was
iven to the station. Soou Mr. Stan
ley arrived in a drag. We took the
train and traveled to London together,
though not in the same carriage. Why
didn't I arrest him; at once? Ob, that
would never have done. He might
havo sent the picture away. It was a
most unlikely thing that he had kept it
about nun. l wanted to get ntm with
the picture ia his possession. On
reaching London I tollowed him to No.
Argyle Square. After a short stay
there, he went to Great Queen street
ana entered a hatter's shop, in the rear
of which a man was at work. In the
meantime, I must tell you, I had tele
graphed for my assistant, and we met
before I quitted Argyle Square, aad he
accompanied me to Great Queen street
After Mr. Stanley quitted the hatter's
my assistant took him in charge, and 1
went into the hatter's and got meas
ured for a new tile in regular clerical
shape.
" 'I never made a hat for a dean be
fore.' said c the man. though I hare
'made some curiously-shaped ones.'
"After quite a long talk I said: 'Do
you happen to kaow where I can buy
any valuable old pictures or coins r
Tvrl nn nir ' thfmn aaid. in
Lord, no sir.1 the maa said, in un
mistakable astonishment.
" 'Oh, well,' I said, 'excuse me, but
I thought I saw a well-known picture
dealer ia yourhop just before I entered-.
" 'What, that young man?' he ex
claimed; 'I don't know what he is, but
I do know be ordered the funniest hat
I ever beard of.'
" 'Indeed.' said I. jwhat is it like?'
" 'Well was the answer, 'it's to "be
an inch higher than -ordinary and be
double. First of all, there's to be a hat
shaped this way.'
And- he drew on a piece of papor a
figure, thus:
" 'Now,' said he. 'in that there ia to
be the entire hat, which is to fit the
.broadest part, and Jiare .round the bot
tom, next tbe -brim, the-hat-bead; se
that there is to be a space betweea the
inside and the outside for three-fourths
Dts.heightjadJhBouUideistobe
movable, jsotbatae caa take it off and
put it on as h'ewde'res.T"
" 'What is the object of it?" Tasked.
That's "none of my business,' rhe
replied; .'he pays me a good price for
at, and that's all X care about
"I went awav, thinking about the
new-fashioned hat. What did it mean ?
If Stanley had got possession of the
picture it was worth. a small fortune, to
him. -But it would bea pretty hard
.thiag for him to dispose of it, evea
in London, without ultimate detection.
"I" went' toward Argyle Square and
mused as I went. The hat" was' to be
doner the "next day at 6p". in., so Stan
ley was safe, I thought, until that .time.
The picture was-thirty-six inches, bv
twentytwo. I went dowa "to -Hoi-
born and' boegnt a-pieceof-artist s can
vas that size. 1" took it home, folded
it .and found that it .would, just, about
jbjetween'ihe false inside' and the eut?
nide'of :Mf.Stanley'a : newkat. " i have
got you, my gentleman.' I said to my
self. "
"Well, to make a. long story short.
the hat went. home at the time agreed
.upon,-and JMr Stanley did not leave
his .bouse until aext.moraiog at niae
o'clock. Then he "was dreseed for
traveling, attired in scrupalous clerical
garb and wearingthe hewjhai. I was
now dressed as an odiaatygeatlemaa,
but-so-fixed up as-4o-defy detection. I
Jhad:aeaaaUmajal-JaadnndwlM
he got iato . bis . cabs and droye to-the
London Bridge'Station'I followed. He
Was bfffct:stnCoiit:at:-I felt that;
going' to Parls'to get' iad of -the swag.
Wheawe.ri-ached the." Crowa Hotel at
Dover botk 'ofj-LaeJlweatJiaio jthe
coiee-room- aad: ordered, break
fast Staaley 1" hmag ap : 'hie
overcoat and hisaew hat above ii - We
both ate a heartVmaaL artaelwat did
apt:s$art.forCalais fbrwo hoars. ,Tee
tiamwMgrowiar'saJart Vmt' me- if I
meant to do aavthiar. aid vet I hard-.
ly tawlwwtefaaoajtjt. i
ways been aecastomed to watch lor op
portualties and to use circumstances aa
they occur. I had great luck in such;
matters before, and it did aot fail me'
" "A geaUeman whose, hat and coat
were hanging near to Stanley's, in re
moviag them knocked down Stanley's
hat. f picked it up instantly, and.
with aae hand inside, and the other
oat; had an opportunity to feel it. It
was heavy and there was semethiag
betweea the false inside and the out
side. Mr. Stanley rose hastily, took
his' hat from my hand, rubbed it with
his sleeve; aad replaced it on the
Thee he thanked me for lifting it
m
the floor. Hooked turn square in
face; aad said:
the
"Mr. Staaley, that's not the
hat yea wore when I met you recently
at the Dake of 'a.'
"He turned deadly pale and gasped
for breath. I saw I had my man.
" Come,1 said I, there aeed be ao
troable. Give me the Claude Lorraine
yoa hare concealed in that hat, and
you may pursue your journey in
peace.'
"He sat dowa and looked steadily at
ma for, fully half a minute.
, " i "know you now,' at length he
said. I will give you the picture, but
aeed the Dake know where you gut
UP' . J
" 'I think so,' I answered, quickly.
" 'And are you going to arrest me?
he asked.
" '.Not if you deliver up the picture,
I answered.
"He arose immediately, took down
the hat, removed the outside. 'and there
was the Claude Lorraine.
"We went back to London by the
same train.
" 'Mr. Stanley,' I said, as we parted
at the London Bridge Station, 'the Duke
will never know from me where or how
1 found this picture. So far as I am
concerned, you may go back to B
as soon as as your mother has re
covered. But. "pray, try and be
"I carried tbe picture to the Duke
and declined to answer questions. He
rewarded me nobly. When I asked
after Mr. Stanley, he said he had just
received a telegram that he. would re
turn that even ug. The Duke pressed
me to stay until morning, and I did so.
Mr. Stanley arrived and greeted me
with great cordiality. When tho Duke
iokedme about my having shaved off my
beard, Mr. Stanley remarked that really
he aerer observed it." N. Y. Dia
patch.
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AMERICAN SKIES.
eaatMal aa Any the
Show.
Old World Oaa
Americans have long been, in a lit
erary way, the vicarious victims, to a
certain extent, of the climate of the
British Isles. The low tones of the at-
nosphere of those islands, tho shifting
veils of fog and rain rising and falling
over them, the soft gray light filtered
through the mist and cloud all have
caused the bine skies aud endless sun
shine of Italy to seem divineh fair to
visitors from Kugl.sh shores. Aud as
among these visitors have come the
poets and the romance writers, the fair
ness, embalmed m prose and verse, has
taken its place in literature, has become
classic The imaginative New World
student, eager to learn, passionately
desirous to apprec'ate, has read these
pages reverently; he knows them by
heart. And when at last the longed
for day comes when he too can make
his pilgrimage to these scenes of legend
and romance, so dominated is he, for
the most part, by the spell of tradition
that he does not even perceive that
these long-chanted he.tVens areno bluer
than his owuor if by chance his eye, ac
curate in spite of h luself, notes such a
possibility, he puts it from him pur
posely, preferr ug the blucness which is
historic. The heavens lyiug over Ven:ce
aad her palaces are. must be, softer
than those which expand distautly and
impersonally over miles of prairie and
forest; the hue of the sky which bends
over Rome is, must be, of a deeper,
richer tint than any which a New World
has yet attained. But generally th-s
preference of the imaginative American
is not a choice, -it it an unconscious
faith which he has cherished from child
hood, and from which he would hardly
know how to dissent He is gazing at
these foreign skies through a long, en
chanting, vista of history, poetry, and
song; be simply does not remember his
own sky at all.'
Only recently he has begun to re
member .t, only recently he has begun
to discover that, in the matter of blue
at least he has been gazing through
glasses adjusted to the scale of English
atmosphere comparisons, and that di
vested of these aids of - vision, he can
find above his own head and in his own
country an azure as deep as any that
the Old World can show.
Even when this has been discovered
it remains but blue sky. The other
treasures of those old lands beyond.the
1 sea their ruins, their art thcr ancient
story these'he has not and can never
have, and these he loves with that deep
American worsh.p which must seem to
those old gods like the arrival of Magi
from afar, men of distant oirth, some
times of mauners 'strange, but bringing
costly gifts aad bowing the knee with
reverence where the dwellers in the
temple itself have grown cold.
Compared with1 those 6f the British
Isles, all the skies of the United States
are blue. In the North this blue is
dear, strong, bright: in the South, a
softness mingles with the brilliancy,
and tempers it to a beauty which is not
surpassed. The sky over the cotton
lands of South Carolina is as soft as
that jpf Tuscany; the blue above the
silver beaches of Tlorida'mclfrras "lan
guorously as that , above Capri's en
chanted shore."-- Constance Fcnimorc
JFoblon,in Harjter's. Magazine. I
-
"Let me see; you Jold me your
husband's business in the States was''
"Literary j-ursuits," replied the
ex-Cashier's wife to her Canadian
'euvt mf w aa, aj jsa vAU4AAJ
neighbor up near Montreal. "He w
a famous writer, was he?' went
was
on
the Canadian encouragingly. "Oh,
yes, said the wife; "he made all his
money by writing." But a caller or
something else, prevented her telling
heFfriead that.herhusband's writing,
had consisted of forging His employer's
checks. Tonkcrs StaUsinan. -
A London journal desiring to, act
rertise a dissecting-room story' which.
was the strikiag'feature of the Christ
mas issue, hired;, "sandwich" men to
parade the streets, .the boards ia which
thev were, encased Laving the shape'of
coffin-lids, and the men themseires'.pe
ing dressed Xd look J.ke' corpses. '.The
harrible exbibitioajcaUed rout aa iadig
aaat protest: from-the decent press.
CmrrfuL .r '
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A Hew York firm last year maau-
factm-ed' 1,500,000 toas of chocolate,
asiag over a ton of sagara day. K..F
. rxasT
National Bank!
Aitktriiei Capital, -Paii
Ii Capital,
Sir?lu,u4Prlti,-
$250,000
50,000
6,000
omexu amp Dtaacroas.
A. ANDERSON, Prrt.
SAM'L C. SMITH, Tiee Frutt.
O. T. BOSN, Cuthin.
J. W. EARLY,
t HERMAN OEHLEICH,
W. A. McALLISTEB,
G. ANDERSON,
F.ANDERSON.
Foreign aad Inland Xxebsnge, Passage
Tickets, and Real Estate Loans.
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ITJSmSS CARDS.
D.T. Mabttx, M. D... F. J. Schoo, M. D.
Drt . iCARTTH ft SCHTJG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Losal Sufpeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
& B. H. and B. A M. B. B's.
Consultations in German and English.
Telephones" at offlce and residences.
yarOfflce'dver First National Bank.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
42-y
p O. ETANS, Bf .
PHYSICIAN AUD SURGEON.
EsTOfflce nd rooms, Gluck building,
11th street. Telephone communication.
44-ly
r 3 GABLOW, Collection Att'y.
SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPEB.
Office with J. G. Higgint. 84-3m
rLLA ASHB AUGII, D. . S.
DENIAL PABLOB,
On corner of Eleventh and North streets,
over Ernst's hardware store.
TT J. HU1MON,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
atk StrMt. x 4rs west f Xsawead Boast,
Columbus, Neb. M-7
J 6. MEEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska
2-tf
V. A. MACKEN,
SKAUERIK
Foreign and Domestic Liquors and
Cigars.
llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y
T rcALLlSTER BBOS.,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office up-stairs in McAllister's build
ing, llth St. TV. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
JOHN TIMOTHY,
HOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keeps a full line of stationery and school
fcupplles, aud all kinds of legal forms.
Iuiures against fire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block,
Platte Centet. -x
J. M. 1IACFARLAND, B. R. COWDERT.
iitoruj ai. JTotarj M e. CoUsetst .
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFABA.AND & COWDBRT,
aiumbi, : : Nebraska.
F. F. atUIlIf ER, 91. ..
(Successor to Dr. C. G. A. Hullhorst)
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON.
"Regular graduate ef two medical col
leges. Office up stairs in brick building
north of State Bank. 2-ly
jr. jr. nAUGUAf,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
yyPartlcs deslringsurveying done can
notify me by mail at Platte Centre, eb.
,i. Olm
Tf H.BU8CHE,
'llth St., oppoiite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, &c at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TA9IES SAEJIOIV,
CONTRACTOR AND 1UILDER.
Plans aad estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. S3 6mo.
R,
H. LAWRENCE,
DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOB.
Will do general surveying in Platte
and adjoining counties. Office with S. C.
Smith.
coumsus,
XXBRASKA.
17-tf
J 8. ICURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunityteestimateforyou. tSTShop on
13th St, one door west of Friedbof k
Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-r
O. O. STT A-Tnsrosr,
XAinnrACTURKK of
1 i -1
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Xoofinr aad Gutter
imraBpaeialty. ISfShoe on Olive, Street, 2 doors
north of Brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store.
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LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
M. HUMPHREY, NEBR.
His .lands comprise some Ine tracts
In the Shell Creek Valley, and tbe north
era pertloa of Plstte county. Taxes
aaM far aen.rBaideata. - Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
AN ARMLESS WOMAN'S PlATS.'
Wrltlaa-, Thradlna; a Xm41. aad Feediaff
HarMlT With Her Tom.
"Now, let me show you what I can
do. Dinner'll be here in just a moment.
Thread a needle! Of course I can:
see?" and suiting the action to the
word, Mrs. Thomson picked up a fiae
needle with the large and second toe of
the right foot, held it tightly between
the tips, and taking some yam in her
left foot, rolled the end deftly on a
small, smooth stone,' put it to her mouth
by bending her body almost double,
and deftly inserted the yarn in the nee
dle, more easily than a bachelor threads
a large needle with very fine thread.
Next she took a handsome tidy on which
she was crocheting and with remarka
ble deftness held the work with her
right foot while with her left she guided
the needle in and out, catching the
threads with ease and fashioning the
figure as fast as " my lady " in the sitting-room
does with her soft hands.
Her right eye giving her some trouble
during this work, she deftly pushed
back tbe spectacles which she wore and
with tbe second toe rubbed the eyelid.
Then she bent forward aad brushed
back a few stray hairs from her fore
head. Taking up the pen between the
large and second toe of hor left' foot,
and holding a slip of paper with her
right toes, she wrote in a feminine
hand, small and rather neat: "He that
lends to all shows good will but little
sense. Ann E. L. Thomson. Born
without arms, December 23, 1839, Ga."
This written, she put the pen down, took
up a blotter with her left foot, placed it
over the writing and dried the ink.
Taking up a pair of large scissors with
the large and third toe of the left foot
she cleverly cut off the portion of the
paper on which she had written.
"Here comes my dinner. Now you
can see me eat not that it's such a
sight, but you may find it odd to see
one eat with toes instead of fingers."
Sir. Thomson spread out a napkin on
the platform, and placed on it the din
ner of a person in good health. Mrs.
Thomson turned around iu her seat,
took up a cup of tea in her foot, stirred
it up with a spoon held in herright toes,
and half bending, half raising the cup
to her lips, drank off the tea and placed
the pup on the platform. Then she
grasped a fiat-handled silver knife in
her left toes, caught a fork between the
first two toes of her right foot, and cut
some steak into pieces. Part of it was
tough, butshe had no more trouble in
cutting it than an ordinary person would
have. A piece of meat held on the fork
was transferred to her mouth, aud was
followed by a piece of bread broken
from a slice by her large and second
toes.
As soon as she had finished this novel
meal, Mrs. Thomson continued: " I for
got to tell you about my schooling. O,
ves, I went to school. Tha pupils were
kind, and I had a little raised platform
for my use. I held my books in my
toes, and read and studied as well as
the rest of the girls. I held a slate in
my right foot and the pencil between
Kie toes of my left and managed to fig
ure as well as anyone. My right limb
is shorter than my left, and I learned to
write with my left foot, as you have
seen. I learned all that was taught in
the common schools of Georgia before
the war." Detroit Times.
A NICE LITTLE ROMANCE.
How a Xw Jersey Domestic Met Her Old
Time Lover.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship City of Rome on one of her recent
trips was Mary Murphy, a talL band
some girl with glossy black hair, who
occupied a berth in the steerage. She
was scarcely more than eighteen years
old, traveled all alone, with little or no
baggage. Her refined manners and
clear accent led some of the officers to
suspect that she was brought up in one
of the large cities. The girl skillfully
evaded all questioning and kept her
own counsel. She did not have any
money, and on her arrival scoured a
situation as nurse in a wealthy family
living on Bergen avenue, Jersey City.
She was a very trustworthy servant,
and so won the affections of her mis
tress that she was treated with more
.than ordinary kindness. In spite of all
she seemed to be unhappy and suffered
from protracted attacks of mental de
pression. On being asked one day as to the
cause of her sorrow Mary confessed.
She said that she had fallen in love with
a young man in the old country and
was about to be married, but her parents
objected because he was poor and sent
lier away to the north of Ireland, where
she was consigned to the care of an
aunt. Before going, "'ftowever, she
managed to see her lover, who asked
her to remain true to him. Upon this
he left for America to seek his fortune.
Once separated, Mary heard nothing
more of him, and, becoming disconso
late, she decided to follow him. She
eluded the vigilance of her aunt, and
one night disappeared. With just money
enough to pay for a steerage passage
she came over to thi3 country.
About a week ago Mary's mistress
had occasion to visit a relative living
in Mount Vernon, Westchester County,
and took the girl with her. On enter
ing the gate Mary suddenly dropped
one of the children and ran into .the
arms of a young man who was just
coming out with a kit of tools. The
pair stood locked in each other's em
brace. Mary rained showers of kisses
upon the young man and hung on Jp
his neck. It soon became apparent
that Peter Doyle, which was the young
carpenter's name, was Mary's missing
lover.
In less than half an hour the past was
told, and the young girl's spirits were
revived. The faithful nurse accom
panied her mistress back home. The
romantic discovery of her lover was too
much for Mary. She asked that they
be united at once, and last night she
became Mrs. Doyle. N. Y. World.
Heredity of Character.
The passive forces seem to be more
generally transmitted than the active;
nature than character. Indirectly, of
course, the former is largely the resul:
of the latter, and to say that nature is
more capable of hereditary transmis
sion than character may, after all, be
reduced to the truism that character is
more lasting in its effects when by be
ing repeated by succeeding generations
it becomes nature. There is, however,
a general fashion of thought that as
sumes all thingi undesirable to, be he
reditary and all admirable traits of'
character to fade with the individual
who has painfully achieved them. Such
a belief has no better foundation than
many other. The world is bad enough,
but it is nothing to what it would be
were not- good f s well and as easily
transmitted from one generation to aa
ether as mvf'iL Boston Courier.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Sitting Bull has beam psMtagrapaed
la forty styles.
Nearly all the winter leeett hotels'
in Florida are conducted by Northern
men.
"La France" roses sell at four dol
lars a dosen buds in New York. The
new rose, "The Sunset," sells at six
dollars a doaea. N. Y. Sun.
Ia Madagascar ao one could read
sixty years ago, but now there are
nearly 300,000 oa the island who have
some part of the Bible, aad 'read it.
Anew industry has developed ha,
Florida that of raising forage grasses,
on the lowlands.. The Kentucky blue'
grass has been both transplanted and
resown there with great success.
All the 'rooms in the hotels at
Monterey, Cal., are engaged by East-,
era visitors for the entire winter, and.
It is also said that the number of East-
era men of means who are looking fori
vine and fruit land ia Southern CaU-1
fornia is double the average.
The FiroVnia Chronicle says that
recent soundings have discovered sev
eral large cavities at the bottom of!
Lake Tahoe resembling in shape the
craters of extinct volcanoes. In their;
vicinity a gentle current setting to-'
ward them is very perceptible.
A sensitive Ohio girl is ill from
nervous prostration. She worked in a
millinery shop, where great aumben
?f little birds were used in trimming
xmnets, and she grieved constantly
ver the victims ol fashion until her
lealth gave way to the strain. Cleve
land Leader.
Bob Burdette lectured in Boston
the other night, and one of the younr
ladies who heard him said if she could,
get him alone somewhere in the dark
jhe would hug him. The humorist has
left the hub. The cold wavo from the
West was even more tempting. Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
When the drill struck the granite
in boring an artesian well near Atlanta,
XJa., the thud of the ponderous instru
ment could be heard at Clarkston, tea
miles away. A ledge of rock of the
same formation crops out in the town,
.which transmits the sound of the tall-
ing drill, Chicago Times.
A red-cheeked boy named David
Saltzman, an interpreter at Castle
Garden, only- thirteen years of age,
.speaks six languages English, Polish,
Hungarian, Bohemian, German and
'Russian. He crossed the Atlantic alone
two years ago, and secured his present
position soon after his arrival. N. Y.
herald.
A Norwich (Conn.) gentleman
made a most remarkable shipment to
the Bermuda Islands the other day. It
was a barrel of ordinary gravel. It
seems that his father is a resident of the
Bermuda Islands, and a raiser of
poultry. There is no gravel on tho
islands suitable for the biddies' digest
ive organs, hence the shipment.
On Lake Apopka, Florida, there is a
lemon grove containing three thousand
trees, all of the choicest varieties.'
They are all budded upon orange i
stocks. It is claimed that lemon
growing will soon rival orange grow
ing, as a Florida industry, and that'
Jenions promise to be a more profitable,
and easier matured fruit than oranges.
Tbe gorilla does not build a house
or shelter (in this he is inferior to
chimpanzee or orang), nor does he at
tempt to use the gun he has seized or
broken. All attempts to keep a erorilla
in captivity, even in Africa, have as.
yet failed. It starves, or dies of, it
would seem, a broken heart. Even
young ones die in a few weeks. Chicago
Herald.
In 1838 were begun the first trust
worthy records of the average length
of life of the English-speaking race,,
and, comparing that data with the'
present, it is shown that there has been
an addition of eight per cent, to the
female life and hve per cent, to the
male. This increase has been attained
principally by fewer deaths, which
means fewer maladies and better
health.
The center of our population has
for a century moved westward with re
markable regularity, beginning at a
point on the east shore of Maryland
and reaching; one ten miles west of
Cincinnati. It is calculated, however,
that progress in that direction is
stopped, in consequence of the rapid
growth of many Atlantic coast cities
and the advancement of some of the
Southern States. Chicago Times.
It seems as if the much-boasted
English culture would do well to be
occasionally backed up by a little prac
tical knowledge when remarks like the
following are made. The wife of a
celebrated poet, lately on a visit to
Boston, in the course of a conversation
with a lady remarked: "I am so glad
to get to America at last, for now I
shall have the long-looked-for pleasure
of tasting a 'canvas-backed clam.' "
Boston Advertiser.
The Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette says
of the Staked Plain, a plateau in North
western Texas and the eastern part of
New Mexico, covering forty thousand
square miles, that its steppes "are no
longer the barren deserts of the geog
raphy. Wells of splendid water are
being dug, and the welcome fluid
springs up at any time after a depth
of twenty feet has been reached. This
water not only supplies stock, but
enough is expected to be obtained to
use successfully for irrigating pur
poses." Ginseng is supposed by the Chinese
to be possessed of wonderful medicinal
virtues, especially in the way of mirac
ulously prolonging the life of the dying,
and there is a popular belief possibly
arising from the resemblance of the
root to tbe body of a man, with two
prongs representing his legs that the
wild ginseng has the power of going
from one place to another underground,
like a living animal. There are various
kinds of ginseng used in China, namely,
the Corean, Japanese. American and
native.
Among the most valuable experi
ments made recently with a view to
ascertaining the difference in the con
sumption of coal between running a
train very rapidly and at a very Tow
speed, those upon the Pennsylvania
road, near Philadelphia, present the
most pertinent and definite data for
arriving at a" conclusion. According
to the published account, the same con
ditions, same number of cars, and sim
ilar engines were employed, and the
trains in each case went the same dis
tance one hundred and nineteen miles
out and back, with- some stops. The
fast train ran on schedule express time.)
and consumed six thousand seven hun
dred and twenty-five pounds of coal;
tbe slow train ran at twelve miles aa
hour, and consumed four thousand
four hundred and twenty -pounds, be
ing a' saving of two thousand three;
hundred aad five pounds. PhUadlpkin
Press.. I
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.'
Mrs. Sarah Howlett, ef
Va., aowjhty-three, has just cut her
uurd set oz teeth.
There are only eight lawyers ia
Philadelphia who have Been ia practice
over fifty years. Philadelphia Press.
The richest man ia Colorado is
Governor Evans, and he siaes up at
only three millions. Chief MerakL
Celoael Ingersoll is - said to4 have
rmade 925,00 from arty lectures dur
ing the past few months. Chieagd
Inter-Ocean.
The Prince of Wales is only ferty
ifire. But if you count his age oa the
little darky's plan, by the fun he's had,"
he'd be most three hundred, says the'
Boston Globe.
President Arthur is said to be,
looking better than at aay time during
his term of office. His complexion is
dear and his color good, a marked
change from one year ago. Ckicag
Journal.
Paul Revere, of Revolutionary
memory.is to stand in marble in Charles-,
toa Square, Boston the exact spot
where, according to Longfellow, he
stood tightening his girth before setting
out on his famous ride.
Colonel A. S. Johnson was the
aVat native of Kansas to be elected to
the State Legislature, and Mr. Edward
P. Greer, recently chosen to that body,
is the second. All other Kansas law
makers hare been natives of othei
States.
A farmer near St. Helena, Cal.,
raised this season a pumpkin he esti
mates would weigh fully three hundred
tounds. He has taken out the inside,
earing only a shell, which is used for
anfl completely shelters his big New
foundland dog. San Francisco CalL
Ben Perley Poore, the veteran eor
respondent, is credited with inaugurat
ing the wheel-barrow bet for elections
about thirty years ago. He lost a bet
and in payment wheeled a barrel of
apples from bis farm in Newbury to the
Tremont House, Boston, a distance of
forty miles. N. Y. Tribune.
Belaney Sayou, a native of Zulu
land and a student at the Hampton
(Va.) Normal School, is dead. He was
twenty-four years old, and was brought
'to this country by Barnum, the show
man, with whom he traveled for a
while. He had been at the school more
thau two years, and was making ex
cellent progress. He died of consump
tion. '
There is soon to be erected a mon
.ument over the grave, in Clarendon,
VL, of Theophilus Harrington, who
was from 1803 to 1813 a Supreme Court
Justice in tha( State, and died in the
office. It was he who first officially
'refused to return fugitive slaves to
their masters, replying to a sluve
hunter who asked him what proof of
ownership he would require. "I want a
bill of sale from God Almighty." N.
Y. Times.
Robert Stephenson left ao family
behind. His wife died many years ago,
and he remained a widower so that
the direct line from George Stephen
son, the eminent engineer, has died
out. James Watt, the noted inventor,
left no descendants. It appears that
the men noted for mechanical genius like
many of those famous in literature, sci
ence and government, leave no children
to perpetuate their names: Shakespeare.
Milton, Bacon, Newton, Harvey, Pope.
Mansfield, Pitt, Fox, Gray, Cowper,
Collins, Thompson, Goldsmith, Cou
greve, Hume, Bishop, Butler, Locke,
Adam Smith, Bentham. Davy, Sir
Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Law
rence, Byron, Lord Clyde, and others
well known to fame have no repre
sentatives now living. Indianapolis
Journal.
m
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
"If he refuses to pay for it, I will,"
said a bystander in a saloon. The
first man refused to pay, and so did the
speaker as he had said he would.
"Well, now, that sticks in my
crop," remarked the old farmer, as s
customer showed him over six bushels
of twigs and branches extracted from a
ton of his bet hay. Burlington Fret
Press.
A misunderstanding: His master
"Did you take those boots of mine to be
soled, Larry?" Irish valet "I did, sorj
and see the thrifle the blag'yard give
me for'm! said they were purty nigh
wore through I" London Punch.
Arabella "Mary, you've becq
drinking again." " Mary "Oh, no,
mum; not dnnking, mum. The doctor
says I'm threatened with the zebra
spiral mengetus, and recommended ma
to take a little cronie as an anecdote.'1
Boston Beacon.
Immaterial.
A Uttlo cloud.
Anofcth aloud,
A broomstick's nig-ht. aerial;
Another swear.
A clutch at ha:r
The rest Is Immaterial.
Erratic Enriift
"Why do you wear your beard
mutton-chops?" was asked a comraer
'cial traveler by a friend. "Because,"
was the philosophical answer, "in the
(first place it bides my eheek, and in the
'seeond place it gives my chin full
.'play." Cfucags Tribune.
"You must come and see me, my
dear," said a lady to a little girl of her
acquaintance. "Do you know my
mumber?" "O, yes, ma'am," re
ispended the innocent child. "Papa
says you always live at sixes and
aeveas." N. Y. Journal.
The verdict: First Irishman (wait
x$
less whisper) "For loife!" First
Irishman "For loife! With emo
tion. Och, sure, he won't live half
the thoime!" London Punch.
Robert McPhun was arrested in
Louisville, Ky., charged with forgery.
He was a newspaper man, and his
name would indicate that he edited the
humorous column. Boston Star.
When we learned that McPhun had got
into trouble, we predicted that some
unconscionable paragraphia t would
McPhun ef his name. Norrislotcn
Herald.
It was an Arizona man. With
steady hand he filled the can: for, as
usual with him, he filled the chalice to
the brim. Appalled, affrighted and dis
mayed to see the wholesale liquor raid,
the gentleman behind the bar, in
trembling tones, exclaimed. "Look
hyar! You are mistaken, pard, I'm,
thinking. That isnt cider that you're
drinking!" The stranger's face" grew
dark aad sad. he looked as though he
had it bad. In tones of grieving, mild
rebuke, he said with a reproachful
look: "You're mightv right, stranger.
Ooed heavens! I wouldn't drink that
nca cider for fifty dollar." Jar-
ing ia the corridor, to bis mend, rush
ing in from the court) "What's Tim
tr decona irisnman im a Dreain-